I am curious to see what the third gen brings. I currently own the HD XA2 and it is an amazing player, the video out bests some $6K+ playerrs I own, it is really that good!

Which $6000 ($6K+) players would those be? Are you saying the HD XA2 bests those players video quality as a standard DVD player only?; I'm not aware that there are $6K+ HD DVD players out there? HDMI? I could be wrong though?